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and produced a huswife well furnished with 

 the said articles. 



"Any surgeon present," again inquired Russell, 

 who will sew up the wound?" 



I am one," responded another readily, "and 

 will do my best for the poor hound." 



The operation having been quickly and well 

 performed. Falconer was then conveyed to 

 Simonsbath by a passing cart ; and, wonderful 

 to relate, at the end of a fortnight from that 

 day, was taken out again as a tufter by the 

 huntsman, John Babbage, who pleaded that he 

 absolutely needed his services, at the same time 

 pronouncing him to be "fit as a fiddle" for that 

 or any other work. Nor did the hound ever 

 afterwards appear a pin the worse for the cruel 

 treatment he had so bravely survived. 



The open and often stormy Severn-sea being 

 the last refuge of a deer when driven by hounds 

 to the rock-bound coast of his native wilds, it 

 has been Russell's lot, first and last, to witness 

 many a remarkable instance of buoyancy and 

 strength exhibited both by the stag and hind 

 in battling with the waves and struggling to 

 reach the opposite shore. On the 22nd of 

 October, 1876, Russell wrote : — 



" Letters just come in — one from Mrs. King- 

 lake, who, with her husband, son, and daughters 

 has been staying at Porlock for staghunting 

 since August — to say that a stag we ran to 



